Fired today!

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For the old job I would not have done or said anything. I would have let that guy dig himself out of the **** hole he created. To stoop to his level is exactly what he wanted. Leaving with a smile and wave is all I would have done.

This hasn't happened to me but I see it happen a lot. I tell people if they are taking a new job to ask their future employer if it would be possible to start immediately. Tell them you want to give your current job notice, but if they just tell you to leave can you you start earlier.

Second, isn't it just sad that so many employers won't reciprocate or appreciate acts of common courtesy.

They expect "loyalty" but give none in return. They expect to be able to fire on a second's notice, but will be offended if you don't give them notice and leave them in the lurch.

I'll offend the libertarians and some of the corporatists who lurk here, but we need much stronger statutory protections for labor. Two weeks notice both ways and two weeks pay if the employer kicks you out for resigning seems fair enough to me. Frankly, if employers knew it would cost them two weeks pay to fire someone we'd have a more stabile employment rate and the taxpayer would save a bundle propping up the unemployment insurance programs.

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."

Turn the election's in 2014 to a "2A Revolution". It will serve as a 1994 refresher not to "infringe" on our Second Amendment. We know who they are now.........SEND 'EM HOME. Our success in this will be proportional to how hard we work to make it happen.